Richard C. Bunt
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 550
(802) 443-2559
rbunt@middlebury.edu

Education

Northwestern University, B.A. & M.S., 1990.
Stanford University, Ph.D. (Barry M. Trost), 1996.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1996-1998.
[curriculum vitae]

Teaching
General Chemistry (CH 103)
Organic Chemistry (CH 241, CH 242)
Advanced Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Laboratory (CH 312)
Seminar in Chemical Research (CH 400)
Organic Mechanisms of Enzyme Catalysis (CH441) (offered every other year: spring '02, '04, etc.)
First-Year Seminar: Science Risk, Reward and Public Policy (FS 008, Fall '99)
First-Year Seminar: Modern Age of Science (FS 1007, Fall '03)
[Course Descriptions]

Research Interests
Organic, organometallic, and bioorganic chemistry
[Undergraduate Research Group Page]

Middlebury undergraduate students participate as partners in collaborative research during the academic term (often for course credit or senior thesis work) and during the summer research session with financial support for housing and living expenses. 

View our Poster at the 38th National Organic Symposium
(for a full-size version as a .jpeg file click here)

View a PowerPoint Presentation of our More Recent Results (Pd)
View a PowerPoint Presentation of our Earlier Results (DNA and Pd)

Middlebury Publications
(For full listing of publications see curriculum vitae)

14. Paul B. Armstrong,# Lisa M. Bennett, Ryan N. Constantine,# Jessica L. Fields,# Jerry P. Jasinski, Richard J. Staples, Richard C. Bunt "Hammett 13C NMR and X-ray studies of allylpalladium phosphinooxazoline chiral ligand complexes", Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 1441-1445.

13. Sunhee Choi, Richard B. Cooley,# Amanda S. Hakemian, # Yuna C. Larrabee, Richard C. Bunt, Stéphane D. Maupas, James G. Muller, and Cynthia J. Burrows, "Mechanism of Two-Electron Oxidation of Deoxyguanosine 5'-Monophosphate by a Platinum(IV) Complex" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 591.

12. Ryan N. Constantine,# Naomi Kim,# and Richard C. Bunt, "Hammett Studies of Enantiocontrol by PHOX Ligands in Pd-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution Reactions" Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 2279.

# Denotes Middlebury College undergraduate co-authors.

Grants in Support of Undergraduate Research

• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Faculty Start-up Grant, "The mechanism of base-flipping in DNA repair enzymes," ($20,000, 1998-2003).
• VT EPSCoR Award, "Electronic Control of Chiral Ligand Asymmetry" ($5,500, 2000)
• Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship for Agnes Makingwe ($5,000, 2000).
• Cottrell College Science Award from Research Corporation, "Probing the electronic origins of chiral ligand asymmetry in palladium-catalyzed allylic-aklylation reactions" ($41,381, 2001-2003)
• American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund, Type G, "Probing the Electronic Origins of Chiral Ligand Asymmetry in Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic-Alkylation Reactions " ($25,000, 2001-2003)
• Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship for Sarah S. Goodwin ($5,000, 2003).
• Vermont Genetics Network (NIH-BRIN), Partial Sabbatical Leave Support for "Altering the Rate of Base Flipping in DNA" ($20,000, 2002-2003)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH-AREA), "Mechanism of Base-Flipping by DNA Modifying Enzymes" ($137,971, 2003-2006)
• Vermont Genetics Network (NIH-BRIN), Equipment Grant for "A Solvent Purification System" Co-PI with Jeff Byers ($24,700, 2005).

Personal Interests
[Rick's Page]
[Middlebury Road Club]
[Elaine & Rick's Wedding Page]